Open this link for the latest MLA updates (2009). Remember, every four years, MLA Handbooks and/or guidesline are updated and changes are made. However, always ask your professor if he or she prefers the latest updates for MLA, APA, Chicago, or ask for a guideline-preference model.
If the guidelines you are following in 5.4 call for supplementary bibliographic information after the medium of publication, this information should be included immediately before item 1 above. Here are examples of entries for scholarly journals on the Web.
(Always tab the second line of any one source and double space) Place all sources in ABC order on your Works Cited page. Make sure that source is actually cited in your research paper before listing the source on the Works Cited page.
Online Only Publications: (Double Space and "Tab the Second line of each source" listed. Sources Must be listed in ABC order!
Armstrong, Grace. Rev. of Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency, by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 6.1 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Dionísio, João, and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, eds. Mais de pedras que de livros / More Rocks Than Books. Spec. issue of eHumanista 8 (2007): 1-263. Web. 5 June
2008.
Landauer, Michelle. “Images of Virtue: Reading, Reformation and the Visualization of Culture in Rousseau’s La nouvelle Héloïse.” Romanticism on the Net 46 (2007): n.
pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.
Nater, Miguel. “El beso de la Esfinge: La poética de lo sublime en La amada inmóvil de Amado Nervo y en los Nocturnos de José Asunción Silva.” Romanitas 1.1
(2006): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Ouellette, Marc. “Theories, Memories, Bodies, and Artists.” Editorial. Reconstruction 7.4 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Raja, Masood Ashraf. Rev. of Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality, ed. Sarah Husain. Postcolonial Text 3.2 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June
2008.
Schmidt-Nieto, Jorge R. “The Political Side of Bilingual Education: The Undesirable Becomes Useful.” Arachne@Rutgers 2.2 (2002): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Shah, Parilah Mohd, and Fauziah Ahmad. “A Comparative Account of the Bilingual Education Programs in Malaysia and the United States.” GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 7.2 (2007): 63-77. Web. 5 June 2008.
Shehan, Constance L., and Amanda B. Moras. “Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor.” Michigan Family Review 11 (2006): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.
John Q. Student
Professor Doe
English 344
8 May 2000
This template contains pre-settings for the essential features of MLA format: margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control (see The Research Process 159-61). To use this template, select "File--Save As" and save the template under a new name. Then use type-over insertions to replace the header, information block, and title. Finally, replace the text in the body of the template by using type-over insertions, or delete the body text in blocks. (Hint: Leave the sample block quotation in place to preserve its paragraph indentation as a model. Use type-over insertions in the bibliography to preserve the hanging indentations.) Here, then, is a sample block quotation:
A quotation that occupies more than four typed lines should be indented one inch (or ten spaces) from the left margin. It should be double spaced, without quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quoted material. Its right margin should be set at 1". Its parenthetical citation should be placed after the block's last item of punctuation. ("Source" 16)
I suggest printing this template to make sure that your printer is properly configured to produce an MLA page. It should produce 27 lines on this page, plus the header.
Works Cited
Doe, Jane Q. "Title of an Article." Title of a Magazine. 12 Aug. 1999: 23. Print
Doe, John R. "Title of an Article." Title of a Scholarly Journal 18 (1987): 112-28. Print.
Lastname, Firstname. Title of a Sample Book. City: Publisher, year. Print.
Book:
Carre, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Print.
Scholarly Publication (Journal):
Aldrich, Frederick A. and Margueritte L. Marks. "Wyman Reed Green,
(Always tab the second line of a source) American Biologist." Bio 23.1 (1952): 26-35. Print.
Online Periodicals:
Lubell, Sam. "Of the Sea and Air and Sky." New York Times. New York, 26 Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Dec. 2008.
Cohen, Elizabeth. "Five Ways to Avoid Germs While Traveling." CNN.com. CNN, 27 Nov. 2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008.
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If the guidelines you are following in 5.4 call for supplementary bibliographic information after the medium of publication, this information should be included immediately before item 1 above. Here are examples of entries for scholarly journals on the Web.
(Always tab the second line of any one source and double space) Place all sources in ABC order on your Works Cited page. Make sure that source is actually cited in your research paper before listing the source on the Works Cited page.
Online Only Publications: (Double Space and "Tab the Second line of each source" listed. Sources Must be listed in ABC order!
Armstrong, Grace. Rev. of Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency, by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative
Literature 6.1 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Dionísio, João, and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, eds. Mais de pedras que de livros / More Rocks Than Books. Spec. issue of eHumanista 8 (2007): 1-263. Web. 5 June
2008.
Landauer, Michelle. “Images of Virtue: Reading, Reformation and the Visualization of Culture in Rousseau’s La nouvelle Héloïse.” Romanticism on the Net 46 (2007): n.
pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.
Nater, Miguel. “El beso de la Esfinge: La poética de lo sublime en La amada inmóvil de Amado Nervo y en los Nocturnos de José Asunción Silva.” Romanitas 1.1
(2006): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Ouellette, Marc. “Theories, Memories, Bodies, and Artists.” Editorial. Reconstruction 7.4 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Raja, Masood Ashraf. Rev. of Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality, ed. Sarah Husain. Postcolonial Text 3.2 (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 June
2008.
Schmidt-Nieto, Jorge R. “The Political Side of Bilingual Education: The Undesirable Becomes Useful.” Arachne@Rutgers 2.2 (2002): n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.
Shah, Parilah Mohd, and Fauziah Ahmad. “A Comparative Account of the Bilingual Education Programs in Malaysia and the United States.” GEMA Online Journal of
Language Studies 7.2 (2007): 63-77. Web. 5 June 2008.
Shehan, Constance L., and Amanda B. Moras. “Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor.” Michigan Family
Review 11 (2006): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.
John Q. Student
Professor Doe
English 344
8 May 2000
This template contains pre-settings for the essential features of MLA format: margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control (see The Research Process 159-61). To use this template, select "File--Save As" and save the template under a new name. Then use type-over insertions to replace the header, information block, and title. Finally, replace the text in the body of the template by using type-over insertions, or delete the body text in blocks. (Hint: Leave the sample block quotation in place to preserve its paragraph indentation as a model. Use type-over insertions in the bibliography to preserve the hanging indentations.) Here, then, is a sample block quotation:
A quotation that occupies more than four typed lines should be indented one inch (or ten spaces) from the left margin. It should be double spaced, without quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quoted material. Its right margin should be set at 1". Its parenthetical citation should be placed after the block's last item of punctuation. ("Source" 16)
I suggest printing this template to make sure that your printer is properly configured to produce an MLA page. It should produce 27 lines on this page, plus the header.
Works Cited
Doe, Jane Q. "Title of an Article." Title of a Magazine. 12 Aug. 1999: 23. Print
Doe, John R. "Title of an Article." Title of a Scholarly Journal 18 (1987): 112-28. Print.
Lastname, Firstname. Title of a Sample Book. City: Publisher, year. Print.
Book:
Carre, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Print.
Scholarly Publication (Journal):
Aldrich, Frederick A. and Margueritte L. Marks. "Wyman Reed Green,
(Always tab the second line of a source) American Biologist." Bio 23.1 (1952): 26-35. Print.
Online Periodicals:
Lubell, Sam. "Of the Sea and Air and Sky." New York Times. New York, 26 Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Dec. 2008.
Cohen, Elizabeth. "Five Ways to Avoid Germs While Traveling." CNN.com. CNN, 27 Nov. 2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008.
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